West Midlands Regional Conference: Inclusion Bases: delivering the best outcomes
Opening a base without a robust, strategic roadmap risks creating “units” that isolate pupils; this conference ensures leaders have the insights to avoid those pitfalls and to provide a provision that delivers the best outcomes.
Matt McArthur is the Assistant Headteacher at Frank Wise School in Banbury, a special school for children and young adults aged between 2 and 19. Matt currently teaches in both primary and secondary classes, and is the subject-leader for Numeracy. He was Director of Teaching School at the school for five years, and continues to support the Oxfordshire Teaching School Hub with SEND-specific strands of Continuing Professional Development, School-to-School support and Initial Teacher Training. Matt enjoys cooking, keeping fit and reading, and is a committed life-long learner. He has just finished a Masters degree in Educational Leadership, and is currently doing his NPQH.
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Matt McAthur
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Philippa Sherlock-Lewis
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Angus Weir
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Alex Hughes
Chris Pollitt is one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors for schools and a Specialist Lead for Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities.
Chris Pollitt is a qualified teacher and has achieved a NPQH. Before working for Ofsted, Chris gained extensive senior management experience as a headteacher, deputy headteacher, assistant headteacher and middle leader in several mainstream and special schools. His responsibilities included school improvement, self-evaluation and working with individual departments to raise the quality of teaching, learning and assessment. Chris has also been a school governor in a number of schools and a partnerships consultant for a teaching school alliance.
Chris Pollitt HMI
Al has worked in education for 39 years, beginning her teaching journey as a mainstream history and politics teacher. Her passion for working with graduates beginning their careers as teachers took her into Keele University where she was a Senior Lecturer. She led the PGCE programme and worked in India and Thailand co-developing and leading the MA in International Education and the PGDIE and supported teachers in China with a British Council project. Always passionate about ensuring that inclusion is at the heart of schools, Al moved into headship of a large 11-19 generic Special School. Al led this school for 10 years and through two Ofsted inspections graded Outstanding in addition to a Teaching School that led CPD across the West Midlands. She is the WSS Regional Lead for West Midlands, supports schools and MATs in the region and facilitates the NPQSEND. In her spare time, she is a Chair of Governors at a local Infant school and a Trust Board member for a large multi-academy trust.
Alison Parr
Conrad currently works within the within the school improvement team at the Mercian Trust as its Director for Social Mobility. Previous to this role, Conrad served as a senior leader, for ten years, within one of the Trust’s secondary schools where he was also SENCo and pupil premium lead. Conrad has previously been a facilitator on both the NPQML and NPQSL programmes, undertaken training to become a school and MAT SEND reviewer, is a PP sys-tems reviewer and an SLE (SEND). Within his professional practice Conrad is also a specialist teacher (Dyslexia). Conrad is the WSS Deputy Regional SEND Lead for West Midlands.